Lunar Ronin

Just a heads up that at least one of the mods, Hasten Muted, appears to have become corrupt. I did a clean install of the OS on my computer this weekend, and went to grab all of the mods via City Mod Installer. All of them downloaded successfully, except for Hasten Muted. It failed the MD5 checksum match. I attempted again, same thing. So, out of curiosity, I downloaded the mod manually via the website, and it downloaded as a 0 KB file. There was nothing in it. Tried again on a different browser, and same thing. This mod used to download just fine before as I've done so several times before, and I know a couple of friends that use the mod as well.

The forums have really slowed down over the past few years.

There's also a Homecoming specific sub-Reddit created years ago but never used, and Homecoming is now the only major City of Heroes server without a presence on Bluesky. I suspect that it's a combination of people just being too busy, and word of mouth being "enough."

People have a lot of assumptions on how the game works. They assume that because their level ten character is on an invasion team in Steel Canyon, invasions must not care about character level... when the invasions are occurring because of the level 25+ characters on the team.

I'd like to propose a new badge: Wingman/Wingwoman. To obtain this badge, you need to spend ten hours under the effect of Group Fly, (either your own or someone else's).

This was a side effect of SCoRE's/the secret server's/Homecoming's changes to let people build outside of the SG base. Loss of pet pathing was deemed as acceptable collateral damage.

Best elevator to take:

To help avoid getting shot by snipers and such while flying around. But, again, as soon as you do an attack, *poof* the defense goes.

Except all of that only applies when you're not in combat. As soon as you're in combat, that all goes away.

It's really high past time that Homecoming got an instanced Hamidon raid, which would also solve this issue, (among others).

It's not as quick (takes about twice as long now), nor as easy as it was four years ago, but yes it's still viable.

If wishes were horses, I would have dearly liked to have seen the level 40+ Neo Tokyo cyberpunk zone Paragon Studios wanted to end Praetoria with. Alas.

I am all for post level 20 gold side content. I have asked a couple of times for a co-op level 25+ TF in First Ward. I'm not quite sold on additional content below level 20 though, considering how much there already is. Also, just so you are aware, Praetorian characters can join Incarnate trials. They just have to be formed in a zone that they access to, which is the kicker. They're ran in Pocket D on Indomitable and in Echo Plaza on Reunion, so no problem on either of those shards. It's Excelsior and Everlasting that are the issues.

Galaxy City was destroyed. Before I started playing two decades ago, I read that City of Heroes had two starting zones: Atlas Park and Galaxy City. I also read that Atlas Park was much more crowded with people than Galaxy City. So even with my very first character twenty years ago, I started in Galaxy City both because crowds suck and Galaxy City sounds a lot cooler than Atlas Park. Now, I never start a character blue side if I can help it as that means starting in Atlas Park. Being able to outlevel contacts. No, the Ouroboros Flashback system isn't a fix, it's a hack. The Procs Per Minute system. It's obviously broken and greatly imbalances the game. Blue side is boring and monotonous. "Face roll on your keyboard" boring. There's no challenge playing blue side whatsoever (at least not until you get to content made in Issue 8 and later), and it has too many zones compared to red and gold sides. Mastermind minion and lieutenant henchmen are still below the PC's level outside of Incarnate content.

TFs = Task Forces. Hero-side group content, up to eight players. SFs = Strike Forces. Villain-side group content, up to eight players. ATs = Archetypes. What most other MMOGs call classes. Blaster, Mastermind, Brute, etc.

Necro/Time Mastermind will be a fine first character. However, just be aware that in City of Heroes buffs and debuffs are much more important than healing, outside of advanced mode TFs and SFs which only about four ATs are welcome to partake in anyhoo.

If you are playing City of Heroes for the endgame, you're going to be disappointed. This isn't World of Warcraft.

The Subjugator. Some of its attacks are auto-hit. As soon as you see a Subjugator, he or she needs to go down ASAP. See here.

Modern MMOGs have too many conveniences, no need for Homecoming to adopt them.

Submit a ticket here with as much information as possible, including character name.

The final mission of the Helix story arc via Ouroboros Flashback can break if you've already done some Praetorian content and will require GM intervention to complete. The leading theory is that if you've done the Palatine's story arc in First Ward before hand, it'll break, but it's also happened on characters that have never stepped foot in First Ward.

Playable Worlds is launching a Kickstarter campaign for Stars Reach on February 10th. You can find the Kickstarter campaign prelaunch page here.

The Issue 27, Page Three changes to the Eden Trial did it no favors. I used to love the Eden Trial. I parked a blue side character at level 39 back when it was bugged on live just to run it. But making the Crystal Titan's attacks auto-hit took all enthusiasm for it away. I get it. Barrier Destiny. But the call should have been to neuter Destiny in the Eden Trial (and all other non-Incarnate content FWIW), not just neuter defense completely. Most people that I know have stopped running it since. C'est la vie.